I first started Line Dancing way back in 1990 at a local Country Music CLub - those were the days when we only knew a handfull of dances.... remember ZIGGY, CALIFORNIA FREEZE...???
Within a few years classes began to appear and I was already avidly collecting new dance sheets.I keenly attended the various festival workshops and was now looking for more challenging routines.

In the Spring of 1997 I took the plunge and enrolled with BWDA to become an Instructor. I trained and qualified in April 1997 under the expert guidance of John Sandam
That Summer, Eric and I set up our first classes - me teaching and Eric as "DJ". We must have made a good job of working together as we later got married in October 1999

Our classes were established in June 1997 and continue to flourish in the Scottish Borders.
I now teach all levels - Improver class in Hawick, an Intermediate class at Lindean near Selkirk, and my orginal class at Langlee Community Centre in Galashiels, who are all now very experienced dancers, and just started (October 2006), a New Beginners class at Langlee. We also hold an occasional Western Partner Dance Workshop locally at the request of our regular line dancers
(see "CLASSES" page for all the details)

I have been most fortunate in having many of my own dances published in various National country music and line dance magazines (see Di's Dances)

We regulary organise "Class Trips" to Linedance Festivals and Weekend Holidays and have bookings with Kingshill Holidays as Dance Leaders for a number of their Line Dance Holidays each year. We host our own Line Dance Saturday Socials at Lindean on a monthly basis (see EVENTS page)- In the Autumn of 2006 I was invited to teach at the Dance Workshop of the annual festival held by "The Sons & Daughters of Texas" in Belgium, and returned in 2007 to teach at the Woodside Country Dancers Festival, also in Belgium.